Dr. Rebecca Bushnell, dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, and Dr. Steven Fluharty, SAS’s dean designate, have announced that Dr. Eve Troutt Powell, professor of history and Africana studies, will take over the post of Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, both effective July 1, 2013. In this role she will oversee the School’s doctoral programs, which take place in 33 graduate groups and enroll approximately 1,400 students.

In announcing this appointment, Dr. Bushnell and Dr. Fluharty noted that “Eve brings a wealth of talents to this important role and we are confident that the School’s graduate education mission will be well served by her.”

Dr. Troutt Powell is currently graduate chair in history and is a member of the executive committees of the Middle East Center and the Center for Africana Studies, as well as a Penn Fellow. She is a distinguished historian of the modern Middle East, with a special interest in the region’s relationship with Africa. Her latest book is Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement in Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and in 2003 was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Dr. Troutt Powell will succeed Dr. Ralph Rosen, professor of classical studies and the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor, who will return to full-time research and teaching. Dr. Rosen served as associate dean for five years, advocating support of SAS’s PhD programs within the School and the University.